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The Red and Black
Friday, April 23, 1982
The Clash turns down Union concert bid
Will play one show at A tlanta y s Fox
By CHUCK REECE
KH and Black Kntcrtatamcnt Kdilor
The rumors can now, un
fortunately for University
students, be laid to rest.
Despite unanimous ap
proval by the University
Union’s board of governors
and several concessions by
the Union, the Clash, one of
the world's most important
and critically acclaimed
rock n' roll bands. Thursday
turned down an offer to play
the Coliseum in early June
The Union was arranging
the show through Cellar
Door Productins, a concert
promotion firm based in
Virginia Beach, Va., said
Union Concerts Division
Coordinator Jim Flax
Cellar Door's Eric Henning
handled the negotiatins with
the Clash's management
firm, Premier Talent in New
York City
The Union’s board of
governors unanimously
voted to put on the concert
almost two weeks ago
Flax said one of the band's
original stipulations was
that seating be on a general-
admission basis with no
chairs on the Coliseum floor,
so as to provide space for
dancing, more in accordance
with the Clash's image as the
people's band The Union's
advisors had agreed to that
condition, he said.
“We gave them everything
they wanted," Flax said.
Flax said all conditions
seemed in place until Thurs
day morning when Henning,
after an hour-long telephone
conversation with Premier
executives, was unable to
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convince Premier to send
the Clash to Athens instead
of Atlanta, where they will
play June 2 in the Fox
Theater.
“They now feel that they
want to play smaller
venues, 1 ’ Henning said
“They want to maintain the
image that these will be hot
tickets, so to speak Ap
parently, they want to play
places where they will have
a guaranteed sell-out.
“From a business stand
point, we had a very attrac
tive offer," he said
Flax said the Union would
have paid only $10,000 of the
$35,000 the show would have
cost to put on. Cellar Door
was to have put up the re
maining $25,000 The Union
was planning to charge $6
and $7 for student tickets and
$9 and $10 for the general
public
“They didn't think they
could sell those 10,000 seats
out," Flax said.
But had the Clash played
Athens, it was likely no show
would have been held in
Atlanta, thus guaranteeing a
large migration from Atlan
ta to see the show, Flax said
"They don't want egg on
their faces," he said. “They
don't want any empty
seats."
Henning said that by hav
ing to turn people away from
their concerts, the Clash
could guarantee themselves
attention from the media.
"This is a band that's
always had a real good sense
for the media," he said.
Said Flax: “It just makes
me so mad It's just terrible
Everything was here for
them to play."
Flax said the Concerts
Division would try to ar
range a show at Legion Field
with Athens' biggest band,
REM, in lieu of the Clash
show.
There is no information
yet concerning when tickets
for the Clash’s Atlanta show
will go on sale, but the
ducats will cost fans of the
people's band a whopping
$12.50.
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By COLLEEN WALSH
Krd and Hlark Staff Writer
The Georgia Department
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more than $1.3 million this
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grass on Georgia highways,
due in part to the efforts of a
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James Miller, a professor
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The Variety division of the Univer
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tions.The Variety division programs
various forms of entertainment such as
comedians, magicians, hypnotists and
other acts. You can pick up an applica
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return no later than April 30. Interviews
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vice, led a three-year
cooperative project begun in
1978 with the DOT to find a
safe herbicide that would
chemically destroy long
grass by the roadside. That
chemical is commonly call
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around the home and farm
as a crabgrass killer.
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MSMA,” Miller said, "ex
cept for the northern part of
the state where the longer
bahia grass is not a problem.
“MSMA works to kill some
of the leaf area of the longer
bahia grass, which makes it
easier for shorter Bermuda
and fescue grasses to grow,”
Miller said. The chemical
makes conventional mowing
necessary only once or twice
a year
The DOT was interested in
this type of control because
of rapidly rising costs of fuel,
mowing equipment and
labor, Miller said
Chemical mowing is re
quired only two or three
times a year at a cost of
about $3 per two-pound treat
ment, Miller said He
estimated the cost of
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Thursday’s edition of The Red and Black incorrectly
reported that poets Susan Ludvigson and Rita Dove would
read from their works Thursday. The picture accompanying
the story was also incorrectly identified as Dove The photo
was of Ludvigson The reading will take place today at 3:30
For full details, see page 5 of today’s Connections.
Wednesday's edition incorrectly reported that the current
president of the Athens League of Women Voters is
Marguerite Holmes Holmes resigned her position shortly
before announcing her candidacy for state representative.
The new president is Nancy Holmes.
This newspaper's policy is to correct errors that appear in its
news columns. Corrects and amplifications normally run on
page 2.
mechanically mowing the
roadsides to be anywhere
from $6 to $8 an acre. With
300,000 acres of Georgia
roadside to be mown about
six times a year, the savings
could be considerable.
In 1976, for example, DOT
records showed an expense
of $5,3 million to mow along
state highways. However, in
1980, during an experiment
which used both MSMA and
conventional mowing, the
cost for maintaining the
roadsides came to $3,983,000
— a savings of $1,316,200.
The chemical was first
tested in 1978 in Tifton, in
cooperation with the Univer
sity extension service.
"We knew it would work,"
Miller said, "MSMA is an old
chemical that has been used
for the selective removal of
weeds for years on golf
courses and such.”
Miller compared the safe
ty of the chemical to that of
aspirin Although no harmful
side effects have resulted
from its use, DOT spray
operators were required to
attend a training program
before spraying, Miller said.
The operators were train
ed to work in hazardous
weather, to drive safely and
to prevent the spray from
drifting onto private proper
ty, he said
Under the MSMA pro
gram, the roadsides are left
unmown during the winter.
In the spring, clover is allow
ed to bloom and re-seed. The
roadsides are then conven
tionally mown, Miller said,
and maintained with
chemical spraying.
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